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    NSW Premier Bob Carr has said public servants will be suspended without pay if caught accessing online porn at work, following revelations that four officers from the Department of Community Services have been on full pay for 18 months whilst such conduct was investigated.

  • Police question Vodafone Australia's chatroom stance

    The head of a Queensland Police Internet child abuse protection unit has outlined safety concerns about mobile phone chatrooms after recent reports they are being used by paedophiles.

  • UPDATE: AU government to ban spam

    The federal government intends to introduce legislation that will ban unsolicited commercial e-mail, the Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Senator Richard Alston announced today.

  • Australians sexing up work e-mails

    One in three Australians believe sex talk over workplace e-mail is tolerable with men more than women keen swap stories of their sexual feats and endeavours, according to new Internet privacy and surveillance research.

  • Yahoo Australia poses porn for profit

    Yahoo Australia & NZ has admitted to using pornography on its online search engine as "one of the many" revenue drivers to stay afloat in this struggling Internet climate.

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  • UPDATE: AU government to ban spam

    The federal government intends to introduce legislation that will ban unsolicited commercial e-mail, the Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Senator Richard Alston announced today.

  • Australia needs spam laws: govt report

    The National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE) has recommended the introduction of anti-spamming laws, whilst simultaneously playing down their potential benefits in a report released today.

  • Australians overwhelmed by spam: research

    Just pause before you forward that e-mail joke or petition to your friends and colleagues. You will probably find you are straining the relationship.

  • Securing all fronts

    Managed security service providers are gaining momentum in Australia. Can outsourcing security secure your company?

  • Microsoft's Vamos in the hot seat

    The company's managing director, Steve Vamos, speaks to ZDNet about its changing competitive landscape, security issues, and the best way to sell software in Australia.

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  • Policy Central Enterprise

    Enforcing the acceptable use of business computers is often a tricky business. Policy Central Enterprise is an application that offers to help manage an AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) by placing the onus on individual users.

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